AI-powered discovery across your entire archive

Business challenge

Your media content archive is more than a collection of files; it is your brand’s legacy and the irreplaceable DNA of your business. Yet, for most organizations, this valuable institutional knowledge remains locked away—unsearchable, unsecure, and fragmented across aging systems. Without a proactive preservation plan, your brand’s heritage—from physical film to legacy digital files—is at continual risk of degradation and permanent loss.

Inaction carries a steep price: when media content is scattered across disparate systems, institutional knowledge stays buried and discovery becomes an exhausting, highly manual task. Teams waste critical time hunting for assets often resulting in decisions based on incomplete information or recreating lost work. As content volumes surge, these inefficiencies balloon into security vulnerabilities and missed opportunities to leverage your archive for storytelling, brand building, monetization, and next-generation AI automation.

From challenge to opportunity

What if you could:

• Future-proof your brand’s heritage by mitigating the risk of losing aging content through proactive preservation and digitization, allowing you to build your brand’s future on its history.
• Expand access and unlock institutional knowledge by centralizing previously inaccessible content into a single platform, keeping your intellectual property safe while surfacing hidden insights.
• Transform lost and forgotten content into new experiences by boosting content utilization and preparing your archive for next-generation storytelling and monetization through AI search and automation tools.

From hidden history to instant insight

Iron Mountain InSight® DXP redefines your heritage lifecycle by unifying physical archives and digital media in a single, intelligent platform. Leveraging the results of our expert inventory and archival-quality digitization services, the platform empowers you to instantly locate content through AI-driven discovery and a unified view. This transforms your brand’s history into a dynamic powerhouse for compelling storytelling.

• Preserve and digitize your digital and physical media archive: Protect your brand’s legacy by combining secure logistics and climate-appropriate storage with archival-quality digitization and restoration services for all your media content including film, audio, photos and physical artifacts. This process transforms vulnerable physical assets into a future- ready digital archive, hosted on an AI-powered platform for instant access and intelligent management.
• Connect content in a unified platform: Centralize and consistently manage your content in a single, unified platform with role-based access to make content discoverable. The platform ingests, processes, and renders media files and bridges the gap between formats by streamlining digital retrieval for physical artifacts stored with Iron Mountain. Automate compliance by integrating with Iron Mountain’s Policy Center to supply retention schedules and rules, which are automatically applied through InSight DXP’s legal hold and retention management capabilities.
• Activate your archive with AI-powered discovery: Leverage advanced AI-powered search that moves beyond simple keywords to analyze objects, faces, facial expressions, logos, and ambient mood or lighting of a scene. Shift from manual tagging to agentic discovery using an AI assistant that understands natural language to find and activate authentic brand content quickly. By automating metadata management and using AI to transcribe files, the platform provides accurate classification that eliminates manual searching and renders your library truly AI- ready. These insights, paired with custom clipping tools, allow teams to immediately repurpose existing media to create fresh content and maximize the value of your archive.

The Iron Mountain advantage

InSight DXP provides a comprehensive, holistic platform for the entire information lifecycle, unifying your digital, physical, and media content. Our competitive advantage lies in the depth of our AI extractions and integration with physical archives stored at Iron Mountain, providing a unified experience that sets our platform apart.

This powerful technology is built on a foundation of trust, utilizing the same security rigor that leads 95% of the Fortune 1000 to rely on Iron Mountain. InSight DXP utilizes a comprehensive security approach and follows the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to protect information from ingestion through processing.

Iron Mountain leverages its global leadership in the preservation and digitization of more than 100 million assets for over 1,400 global clients. We maintain an arsenal of vintage playback equipment capable of reading 99% of all formats ever created, ensuring your history remains accessible regardless of its original medium. This commitment to excellence is reflected in the more than 50 nominations and awards achieved by client projects across the film, audio, and broadcast industries.

Contact Iron Mountain to learn how you can protect, connect and activate your archive.